Climate Justice and Industrial Transformation

There are no jobs on a dead planet.

We must decarbonise our world by 2050. This requires major emissions reductions and universal access to breakthrough technologies.

Unions want a global agreement implemented on the basis of just transition principles and plans: national and industry/enterprise plans that protect and create new jobs by investing in the necessary industrial transformation.

This is the most significant challenge the world will face in the next thirty years, but we must start now or we will lose the war on climate change with horrendous consequences for all working people and their communities.

The ITUC will work with affiliates to mobilise for a global agreement that frames the possibility of industrial transformation and guarantees a ‘just transition’.

The ITUC affiliates are equally committed to organising the workers in emerging green economy jobs in both the formal and the informal economy.

Climate Justice and Industrial Transformation•News

The government of Chile has announced that it will not host two major international summits as it faces mounting pressure from mass anti-austerity protests. The government finally yielded to calls for the November APEC trade summit and the UN’s December COP25 climate conference to be cancelled as the international community responded in shock at the brutal repression of protestors.

Trade unions, social movements and climate activists across the world are embarking on an historic week of mobilisations to demand climate action, starting on 20 September. Millions of people are set to stop work, engage in workplace actions and take to the streets and put pressure on governments to commit to the ambitious measures necessary to address the climate crisis.

📣 Just Transition for Climate Ambition
Working people around the world are taking to the streets right now for the Global Week of Climate Action to demand ambitious commitments from governments at the UN Climate Summit on 23 September.

The ITUC has expressed its full solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon who have seen vast swathes of their homeland go up in smoke. The policies and environmental denialism of Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro have been heavily criticised by the international community as contributing to the devastation.